1. Lost and unaired interviews set to adorable black and white animation. Blank on Blank is a YouTube channel you absolutely have to subscribe to. In their newest video, two teens interview Louis Armstrong in his underwear at Ravinia in 1964. – – – 2. It starts with decoding the language of prairie dogs and […]
I have no problem admitting that I love Kanye West. I love the Kanye that put out “All Falls Down.” I even love mousy-white-pop-star-humiliating, Shutter-Shades-wearing, Steve-Jobs-incarnate Kanye. But this Kanye—the one who just this week released Yeezus—I hate this Kanye West. The title alone should clue you in to how easy and pedestrian the effort […]
Cycle 4 is coming soon: will you rock enroll with Underacademy College? Joshua Covell has the right idea: edit your resume with this vulgarest of typefaces. Zosia Mamet in Really Really is “keeper of the rape jokes.” To wit: the AV Club reports, “Promotion for Nymphomaniac begins with this photo taken of the inside of […]
We appear to be the happy operators of a menagerie! At a reading in Chicago on Tuesday, January 8th, an elderly gentleman concluded the night’s comments by saying that he had never heard of George Saunders until a few days earlier, but the New York Times’ review*’s claim was too substantial to deny. So, he […]
There are forces working for and against Kathryn Bigelow’s newest film, Zero Dark Thirty. For: The built-in emotional gravity that comes with a story surrounding the events of September 11th; Bigelow’s past success in a familiar Middle Eastern locale (a literal sandbox for her, to use a cheeky metaphor); her execution of the ideal action-thriller […]
